Monthly Archives: April 2014
Lenovo Deal for IBM’s Servers Getting Close U.S. Scrutiny
Lenovo's plan to buy IBM's x86 server business reportedly is under close scrutiny by various U.S. government agencies that are concerned about security.As with...
Samsung Prepping ‘Gear Solo’ Standalone Smartwatch
Samsung has filed a patent for a device it’s calling the Gear Solo, a smartwatch that, as the name suggests, can operate without the...
Google Promotes Google Glass for Business Use
As Google Glass Explorers have been using the eyewear-mounted computers in their communities since the first early Glass devices were distributed in April 2013,...
Symantec Report Says Huge Data Breaches, Targeted Attacks Defined 2013
Attackers made off with more than 550 million identities in 2013, the largest loss to date, according to security firm Symantec's Internet Security Threat...
Oracle, Fujitsu Launch SPARC64 X+ Servers
Fujitsu and Oracle, a year after introducing the first of their jointly developed Fujitsu M10 servers, are rolling out upgraded systems powered by the...
Intel, Huawei to Co-Develop New Big Data Storage
Huawei, one of China's largest IT product and service providers and a company that dearly wants to make larger inroads into the U.S. markets,...
HTC’s ‘Believe the Critics’ Pitch Working for One M8 Sales
Smartphone maker HTC continues to coax the public to listen to its peers."We can't make this stuff up," HTC said in a marketing email...
Xerox Adds to Legal Services With Acquisition of Smart Data
Xerox, which has long wanted to be known as a technology company rather than simply an office copier maker, on April 8 expanded its...
Office for iPad Dominates Apple App Store
iPad owners have propelled Microsoft to the top of the charts on the rival Apple App Store.A week after the March 27 launch of...
Microsoft Patches Windows XP for Last Time, Along With Other Fixes
Microsoft today released its April Patch Tuesday update, providing four security bulletins, including the final updates for the Windows XP operating system.Among the most...